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  The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador) (Paperback) By (author) Tom Wolfe

  

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  Short Description for The Bonfire of the VanitiesOne night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.
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  • Publisher: PICADOR
  • Published: 01 August 1990
  • Format: Paperback 752 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780330305730 ISBN 10: 0330305735
  • Sales rank: 202,709

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• Sherman McCoy, Wall Street bond trader with a salary like a telephone number . . . Peter Fallow, expatriate Fleet Street gossip writer whose price is a free lunch . . . Larry Kramer, assistant DA with a lustful eye on the juror wearing brown lipstick . . . The Reverend Reggie Bacon, charismatic ghetto warlord, con man, and power in the streets . . . The Bonfire of the Vanities welds their stories together on a night in the Bronx when a $48,000 Mercedes hits a street it shouldnt have been near with a girl in its tan leather bucket seat who shouldnt have been there at all. The next day a young black accident victim is in hospital in a coma and Sherman McCoy has booked himself a one-way ticket to disaster.